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hi all,

so far my survey skill is at 403. there are times when I'm looking in vp for plots to mine but it looks like there's nothing there. if there's a --- where the name of the resource should be does that mean I need to increase the skill? I can't remember lol it's been so long since I had to mess with that skill.

On that spot it means that the resource has expired. You can try back in the next day or later on in the day perhaps, to see if a new resource has sprung up.

higer skill for extractors is 225 (byzyliam ore), (not sure about expanse).

what about nebular harvesting?

You need an absolute minimum of 175 survey just to launch a nebula harvester.
However you will only find common stuff (oxygen/copper/traylon/reactive/etc) at that level.

Common wisdom and rumor had it, that the higher your survey skill, the better your chances
were of landing a "good" resource. Supposedly 400 for "occasional" chance up to
around 550 for "most-of-the-time" good finds. Note "good" includes dark matter but also some
of the special ores (kallysite, pachysite, prevtonium, argonight, etc).

Just for note: my survey is 824 and I still hit common resources about 1 in every 4 or 5 deployments.

wow and when did you stop finding new stuff after upping that skill?

Not sure what you mean.
Around 550 I was pretty much getting all of the better resources, most of the time.
You will always find a resource whenever you launch a harvester, raising the skill level
just affects the frequency of "better" resources over common resources.

ok so is there a point whereby you stop increasing the level or not? I mean is it worth lets say pushing the survey skill over 1000 for example?

I don't believe so, actually 550 or 600 is probably all you would need.
I don't remember why I raised my level higher, but I don't think it was related to harvesters.

right thanks for that.